Thought leadersPeople I would send you to after the book
The book asks you to open your eyes and observe how things really are, instead of how you are told to think about them. These are some of the people who do that for a living. I don't agree with all of them on everything, which is the point.
Steve Keen
Australian economist
One of the few economists who models private debt and the banking system as they actually work, and who warned about the debt bubble before 2008. His Debunking Economics and his YouTube lectures explain why mainstream economics ignores money and debt.
www.profstevekeen.com/David Suzuki
Scientist and broadcaster, Canada
A lifetime spent explaining that an economy which demands endless growth on a finite planet is a contradiction, and that the environment is not a sub-department of the economy but the thing it sits inside.
davidsuzuki.org/Jordan Peterson
Psychologist, Canada
On personal responsibility, telling the truth, and putting your own house in order before you try to fix the world. Much of what the book says about beliefs and self-discipline is in his lectures.
www.jordanbpeterson.com/Albert Bartlett
Physicist, University of Colorado Boulder
His lecture Arithmetic, Population and Energy, given more than 1,600 times, uses bacteria in a bottle to show why steady percentage growth always ends in a wall, and why democracies struggle to act on finite resources. If you only watch one thing from this page, watch this.
www.albartlett.org/Walter Stahel
Architect and economist, Switzerland
Father of the "performance economy": sell the hole, not the drill bit. When makers are paid for what their work does over its life rather than for the product at the till, durability pays and planned obsolescence stops making sense. His The Circular Economy: A User's Guide is 120 pages and says most of it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_R._StahelSilvio Gesell
Merchant and economist, Germany and Argentina (1862–1930)
The Natural Economic Order proposed money that slowly loses value if hoarded, so it keeps moving and nobody is paid simply for sitting on it. Keynes wrote that the future would learn more from Gesell than from Marx. The book is out of copyright and free to read.
archive.org/details/gesell-natural-economic-orderHerman Daly
Ecological economist, United States (1938–2022)
The economist who argued, for fifty years and against his whole profession, that an economy can prosper without growing and that growth past a point costs more than it returns. Beyond Growth and Steady-State Economics are the academic version of what this book calls prosperity with negative growth.
steadystate.org/herman-daly/Tim Jackson
Ecological economist, University of Surrey
Prosperity Without Growth takes Daly's argument and makes it practical: what a prosperous society looks like when it stops chasing GDP. Daly wrote the foreword. It is the one book on this page that exists as an audiobook, and the closest thing in print to the next book Peter is writing.
timjackson.org.uk/